Extreme fandom…

[almostwitty]

As some people may have noticed, Torchwood: Children of Earth annoyed quite a few Torchwood fans, and some of them responded in less than flattering ways, especially towards one of the writers, the gentlemanly James Moran.

The best quote I saw was when someone Twittered James to ask that he walk into the production offices and shoot the executive producer. Fan-icide, you might say.

So I wrote a short 400-word article about it for Ariel, the BBC’s in-house magazine – reproduced here for your slight enjoyment…

An article I wrote for Ariel

Of course, extreme acts of fandom stupidity and inaneness are not restricted to Torchwood fans, oh no… read an earlier post and the priceless comment…

Now, guess how much I was paid for those 400 words of non-wisdom...

Mirrored from almost witty.

Comments

[hellmutt.livejournal.com]

Nice article. What were "the in-jokes among users of one of the programme's most popular forums", out of interest?

Also, ROFL - that comment on the earlier post is mere shades off threatening a libel case. What a pail of fail.

[almostwitty]

In Blink, when the TARDIS is in that police garage, Moffatt had the police officer say "We've had this replica of a police box in here for ages. But it's not an exact replica - the windows are the wrong shape."

Cue chortles from most fans.

petertheta has posted what the differences are between the TARDISes over the years, and how the 'new' TARDIS is again different to the old TARDIS...

[shalimar77777.livejournal.com]

LOL -- Torchwood fans are nuts!!!!

Great article, BTW! Love the ending about an inside joke about fans and fans not appreciating being part of the joke.

Fandom is insane. LOL

[sentience.livejournal.com]

You fucking star! &hearts

[madmosh-uk.livejournal.com]

However much you got paid, *I pay your wages*!

OK, well, my parents do.

And thank you for not putting any spoilers in. I'll watch the series when I get home in Aug/Sept.

[almostwitty]

I pay your unemployment benefit. :P Well, if you'd qualified for it ...

[madmosh-uk.livejournal.com]

...or claimed it! Which I haven't done since I was about 18-19. Having said that, still waiting to hear about the UK300+ the government owe me in reclaimable taxes.

That'll pay for my *next* flight to Bangkok :)